Dorothy Gilman
Dorothy Gilman
Dorothy Edith Gilmanwas an American writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1923
CountryUnited States of America
Dorothy Gilman quotes about
american-novelist dreams people
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
numb best-things
The best things arrive on time.
motivational dream people
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.
waiting too-late numb
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
compromise fanaticism
will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
memories impact never-change
When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.
memories past people
... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
compassion
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
thinking air two
Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.
boredom too-much hell
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.